David B. Goodstein

David B. Goodstein (6 June 1932-22 June 1985) was the publisher of the gay magazine The Advocate and a leader of the gay rights movement in San Francisco during the 1970s.

Biography
David Goodstein was born on 6 June 1932 in Denver, Colorado, and he graduated from Cornell University in 1954 before becoming a criminal lawyer practicioner and then a Wall Street investment banker. In 1971, he moved to California to work for a bank, but he was fired after an executive found out that he was gay. Goodstein decided to become a vocal supporter of the gay rights movement as the publisher of The Advocate, and he convinced Harvey Milk to support straight candidates in order to allow for friends of the gay rights movement to be elected to office. Goodstein helped in striking down a law in 1978 that would ban gay teachers from teaching at schools, and he became a member of the US Democratic Party. He died of bowel cancer in 1985.